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hohlecow: “using imps is completely a micro-optimization and is not meant to replace smart algorithm choices. its not meant to solve your performance woes, its meant to eek out that last smidgen of performance.”

good follow-up, for those who read the previous article.

electronista:
fcc delays plans for free broadband vote  —  the federal communications commission is delaying a vote regarding the creation of free broadband services around the us, reuters reports.  fcc chairman kevin martin has proposed auctioning off a portion of the 25mhz wireless spectrum &ip;

l8r is a new service that lets users create an email and have it delivered at a specific time in the future. it’s similar to the popular site futureme where anyone can write a simple letter to themselves or a friend and have that letter sent by email sometime in the future, for you know, fun. but what l8r has done is comned this idea of sending an email at a later date with email reminders and a focus on getting things done. (well, if i put it that way, it sounds more like a basic reminder service) l8r suggests using the service for things like sending out rthday emails, reminding yourself to buy flowers on your anniversary, setting personal goals, and impressing your boss by “sending” an email late at night.

signing up with l8r will allow you to have three pending emails at any time for free, but if you need to send any more than that, it will cost you. you can purchase 10 emails for $1.99, 200 emails for $9.99, and 1,000 emails for $24.99. when you run out, you’ll be switched back to the free plan. now, you may be wondering, why pay for l8r when you can send emails in the future with a service like futureme for free? paid users of l8r get more features like file attachts, the ality to send html email, unlimited pending emails, and ssl security. l8r will also get rid of that annoying “sent later with l8r” message at the bottom of your messages.

what i like about l8r is that you can create email drafts and view pending and sent email in the messages area just like you would a normal email client. the benefit of this is that you can keep record of sent mail and fix any mistakes you have made in a pending email before it gets sent out. l8r will also send you an email when a message cannot be delivered and put it in the “undelivered” tab. this way, if you sent a message to an email address that doesn’t exist or if someone’s mail server is down, you can find out what email didn’t make it and send again. another feature is the ality to send an email to more than one person. you just separate multiple email addresses with a comma in the “to” field and l8r will send to each recipient.

even though l8r isn’t anything all that new when compared to email reminders (except that it sends up to five years in the future), i think it’s a pretty neat service. i can see it being helpful for people that use reminders in their daily workflow and need more than basic text messages. you can have three pending emails at any time for free and get extras like html mail, attachts, and ssl when you pay for more. something l8r may also want to consider is allowing users to send recurring messages to themselves for repeating tasks and personal goals. i also ran into a couple minor problems. first, when editing an email, the time did not offset properly from its original set time. also, when trying to buy more email credits, l8r directed me to a paypal checkout for netherlands users and i couldn’t make a purchase. (maybe not such a minor problem) otherwise, everything ran well and future emails that i sent out arrived on average 2-3 minutes after my set time.

as a last note, another service similar to l8r and futureme is futuremail which allows you to send email in the future as a note or reminder to yourself. futuremail also has this neat concept of a “futuremail blog” where you get a public stream of your future messages and an rss feed to share with friends.

tags: l8r, future, mail, email, reminders, gtd

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here's a twist: google (nsdq: goog) rolled out new features today for google maps on mole phones before they are available on the pc. the company today wrote on its blog that its added public transportation directions for bus, trains and ferries to your phone. in the mole version, people can browse trips during the day more easily, and determine when the last bus trip of the day is so you know how late you can stay at a party. of course, also unique to the phone, is finding your location automatically. google maps version 2.2 is available today in 40 north american cities, including chicago, the bay area, seattle and vancouver.

google created a youtube video to demonstrate how it works. check it out:

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kotaku just found a japanese site which features screenss for namco bandai?s upcoming mr. driller online for the xbox live arcade. the ups? mr. driller is a thriller. also released are screenss of directions, which look very easy to understand. that?s often been a problem with online casual games for consoles: the instructions have ed g time in everything from pinball fx for the xbox 360 to pixeljunk monsters for the ps3. here, you not only get basic rules; you?ll get to know all the power ups and treasure you can collect. so nothing will stymie you as you drill to victory and collect air capsules so you won?t die of suffocation. great instructions, great game. can?t wait.

http://kotaku.com/pogallery/mrdrilleronline/1000938785